25 May

Q & A Spotlight

We have a nice mixture of clinicians and social scientists at our PRC which fits the strengths of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Health behavior change tends to be an interdisciplinary field. There are economists thinking about it from the standpoint of incentives. Psychologists and other social scientists focusing how people change their behavior. For clinicians, it’s very much a part of what they do day-to-day, trying to help their patients engage in healthy behavior at higher rates. What’s exciting is when interdisciplinary teams come together, bringing theories and approaches that have been empirically tested, separately and in different contexts, to see if we, collectively, can come up with new strategies that are more effective.

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